Labour’s Philip Glanville has been elected the new mayor of Hackney with 69 per cent of the vote.

The turnout was 18.6 per cent, with around 33,000 people in the borough casting their votes, down from nearly 70,000 two years ago when Jules Pipe was re-elected.

The Green Party’s Samir Jeraj came second with 13 per cent of the vote, Amy Gray finished third for the Conservatives with 11 per cent, Liberal Democrat Dave Raval was next with 6 per cent, and One Love’s Dawa Ma was in last place with 2 per cent.